JP3083995U - Card type room key - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To provide a card-type room key from which service information required by a guest can be obtained. SOLUTION: The name 9 and the room number 10 of the accommodation facility issued at the accommodation facility such as a hotel are the room key 1 displayed on the card, and the card displays the service information 12 together with the message provided by the hotel. .

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a card-type room key used in accommodation facilities such as hotels and inns.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a hotel or a ryokan, a door is unlocked or closed using a room key composed of a magnetic card or an IC card when entering or leaving a room. Such a card-type room key can be used in place of the conventional large and heavy mechanical key to streamline key management and to issue new sanitary room keys to new customers. And it is portable.

[0003] Such a card-type room key is such that, for example, when a customer applies for accommodation at the front desk, a receptionist assigns a room number and the number of nights to a card-type room key in which data corresponding to a predetermined room is recorded. Is displayed, and the necessary management information is recorded in the memory or barcode on the card and then passed to the customer. On the other hand, customers can enter the room by unlocking the door of the guest room using this card-type room key.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 However, such a conventional card-type room key is used only for the purpose of entering and exiting the room for door lock and unlocking the door lock, and accordingly, the card surface is provided with the hotel name. Only the minimum items required to use as a room key, such as the room number, the arrow in the card insertion direction, the message provided by the hotel, etc., are indicated, so that guests staying at the hotel If you are trying to get information inside or outside of the city, for example, if you are going to use a taxi or go shopping, you should always ask the front desk by telephone, or ask the taxi company etc. in the telephone directory yourself. I had to call and find out. In other words, with the conventional card-type room key, there was an inconvenience that information other than the function as a key and the information on accommodation could not be obtained.

The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional problem, and is a card-type which can easily obtain service information normally required by a guest staying at a hotel or the like by notation on the card. The purpose is to provide a room key.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the object, the card-type room key according to the invention of claim 1 is a room key in which the name of the accommodation facility and the room number issued on a hotel or the like are displayed on the card. The service information is displayed together with the message provided by the facility.

The card-type room key according to the invention of claim 2 is characterized in that the service information is advertising information related to or not related to facilities in the accommodation facility.

The card-type room key according to the invention of claim 3 is characterized in that the service information is information on use or guidance of facilities in the accommodation facility and partner facilities outside the accommodation facility.

[0009]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are a front view and a sectional view showing a room key of the present invention, for example, a non-contact IC card. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a card-type room key, which comprises a core sheet 2 and cover sheets 3 and 4 which are bonded to the front and back surfaces of the core sheet 2 to protect the core sheet 2.

Further, between the core sheet 2 and the cover sheet 3 on the front side, a memory chip 5 recording key information (key number) of a guest room and information of a user (customer) of a hotel as an accommodation facility, and the like. In addition, an IC chip 6 for processing various information, a battery 7, and the like are stored. An antenna 8 and the like for transmitting and receiving information to and from a hotel host computer through the IC chip 6 are similarly provided.

When the card-type room key is a simple-structured bar code or matrix code printed on the surface, which is different from the IC card, the key information is magnetically recorded. Alternatively, a function as a room key can be provided by reading the optically written data by a reading device provided on the door side.

On the surface of the cover sheet 2, a hotel name 9, a guest room number 10, and an arrow 11 indicating a direction in which a card is inserted or held over a reader on the door side are provided by printing.

Independently of these hotel name 9, guest room number 10 and arrow 11, the front and / or back of the cover sheet 2 is provided with a store of a hotel facility such as a restaurant, a stand, a lounge, Service information 12, such as the use or guidance of pools, tennis courts, and beauty treatment salons, or the promotion and advertising of affiliated facilities outside the hotel, telephone numbers of taxis, etc., is provided by printing with characters and pictures. The service information is designed with distinctive shapes, patterns and colors.

If the IC 6 of the card has a function of counting and calculating a facility usage fee, as shown in FIG. 3, the card-type room key 1 issued by the hotel front desk 13 is used as shown in FIG. As described above, the control of locking and unlocking of the door 14 of the cabin is carried out under the supervision of the host computer 15 as well as having a meal in the restaurant 16 and a facility 17 such as a pool. Various kinds of information in the case of use are monitored by the host computer 15, and the results of these monitoring are added up as a usage fee, and are settled together with accommodation expenses at the front desk 13 at the time of check-out.

[0015] In this case as well, the display of the service facility such as the restaurant or the pool is displayed on the card, thereby further improving the serviceability to the customer.

[0016]

[Effect of the invention]

 As described above, according to the present invention, the name of the accommodation facility and the room number issued at the accommodation facility such as a hotel are the room keys displayed on the card, and the card includes the message provided by the accommodation facility. Since the service information is displayed, the room key is not only used for locking and unlocking the rooms and doors, but also, for example, advertising and advertising of hotel facilities and facilities outside hotels, hotel usage fees, and By displaying Xie's telephone number, etc., it is possible to improve both the serviceability to customers and the hotel's profits.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a card-type room key according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the card type room key shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a system for using the card-type room key shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Room key 9 Hotel name (name of accommodation facility) 10 Room number 12 Service information 17 Hotel facilities

Claims (3)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A name of an accommodation facility and a room number issued by an accommodation facility such as a hotel are room keys displayed on a card, and the card displays service information together with a message provided by the accommodation facility. A card-type room key, characterized in that: 2. The card-type room key according to claim 1, wherein the service information is advertising information related to or not related to facilities in the accommodation facility. 3. The card-type room key according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information on use or guidance of facilities in the accommodation facility or partner facilities outside the accommodation facility.